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ACTION URGED BY /MEMBER FOR .MASTERTON UJ, PROMISE THAT SHOULD BE KEPT. DEVIATION A SPLENDID INVESTMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A suggestion that the Government should undertake the work of constructing the Rimutaka deviation, which had been first promised in 1914, was made by the member for Masterton (Mr J. Robertson) during the debate on the Public Works Statement in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Robertson said that the completed work would be a splendid investment for the country and could be used as a rehabilitation measure, as well as opening up country which could be settled by returned soldiers. Mr Robertson said he realised there were great difficulties in the way of going ahead with the work. In 1924 it had been estimated that the work would cost £1,000.006, apd that interest charges would amount to £40,000 a year, but the present Government had renewed the promise made in 1914 and renewed in 1924, to undertake the work, and he thought it should be gone on with in spite of the war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1941, Page 4
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179OUR HILL BARRIER Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1941, Page 4
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